{"id":809,"date":"2013-01-11T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T01:23:55","slug":"favorite-san-diego-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Favorite San Diego history books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in\u00c2\u00a0May 1991, San Diego <i>Union<\/i> reporter Roger Showley wrote a nice piece on local history books, which included a valuable list of favorite\u00c2\u00a0titles nominated by local historians (list attached here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SDhistorians.pdf\">Favorite Books<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>That was 22 years ago. How about we update that list?\u00c2\u00a0 This doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be limited to professional historians.\u00c2\u00a0 Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hear from students and history buffs, too.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to know is simply:<\/p>\n<p>a. What are your favorite San Diego history books (perhaps your top five?)<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>b. Why do you like these books?<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00c2\u00a0leave a comment below\u00c2\u00a0or send me an email at <a href=\"mailto:r-crawford@cox.net\">r-crawford@cox.net<\/a>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give you all a couple of weeks then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post the results on this site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D809&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in\u00c2\u00a0May 1991, San Diego Union reporter Roger Showley wrote a nice piece on local history books, which included a valuable list of favorite\u00c2\u00a0titles nominated by local historians (list attached here: Favorite Books). That was 22 years ago. How about we update that list?\u00c2\u00a0 This doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be limited to professional historians.\u00c2\u00a0 Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hear [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pVcZn-d3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}